VAC-U-MAX Named NJMEP’s Manufacturer of the Week

March 18, 2022

#MADEinNewJersey since 1954

Thank you to the New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program for naming us NJMEP’s Manufacturer of the Week!

VAC-U-MAX is honored to receive this recognition. As a proud #MADEinNewJersey manufacturer since 1954, VAC-U-MAX founder Frank Pendleton invented the world’s first industrial vacuum cleaner that operated solely on compressed air to make New Jersey’s textile mills a safer place to work.

In 1970, he went on to design an industrial vacuum for the safe evacuation of jet fuel for Pan American Airways—this project was also in the neighborhood, as Pan Am’s hub was JFK Airport at the time! Frank’s invention helped Pan Am recover highly flammable jet fuel from the wing tanks of the first Boeing 747 aircrafts.

Fast forward to today—68 years after opening our doors—New Jersey is still our home, and VAC-U-MAX continues to lead in bulk material handling technologies, conveying over 10,000 powders and granular bulk materials to processing and packaging lines, in the food, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmeceutical, chemical, plastics, petrochemicals, and nonwovens industries. What New Jersey Makes, The World Takes!

The New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program (NJMEP) is a premier training and consulting organization that champions New Jersey’s small- to medium-sized manufacturing businesses.